South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
1.3 Million
6,000+
800+ Years
Who we are
We provide over 260 mental health services across central and south London, including inpatient care, outpatient clinics, community-based support and addictions services. In total, we serve 1.3 million people locally and support over 5,000 inpatients and 40,000 community service users each year in Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Croydon.
Nationally, we deliver more than 20 specialist services for children and adults, covering areas such as perinatal mental health, eating disorders, psychosis, and autism. Our strength lies in combining outstanding care, pioneering research and expert training to improve mental health outcomes across the UK and beyond.
Over 800 years of impact
Our history dates back over 800 years to the founding of the Royal Bethlem Hospital, Europe’s oldest mental health institution. Today, that legacy continues through our commitment to high-quality care, innovation, and global partnerships.
Research and academic partnerships
We work in close partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London — one of the world's leading centres for mental health research and training.
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One of the largest mental health research units globally
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Home to the UK’s only Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health
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Hosts Europe’s largest psychiatry training programme
Our national and global reach
Our services extend beyond clinical care, including award-winning education, consultancy and international collaboration through:
Maudsley Learning
A global leader in mental health education, delivering training to healthcare professionals, schools, police, and private organisations in the UK and internationally.
Maudsley Private Care
A dedicated service providing high-quality, face-to-face and virtual private mental health care.
Maudsley Innovation
An internal development and support unit dedicated to advancing promising healthcare innovation concepts originating within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). It supports the full journey from initial idea through to commercialisation, drawing on strategic mechanisms and specialised expertise.
Current initiatives include applying commercial principles to the management of intellectual property, securing innovation grant funding, and building strategic partnerships with research and development (R&D) organisations. Through these efforts, the unit aims to transform novel ideas into impactful, scalable solutions that deliver meaningful benefits to the healthcare system and wider society.
Specialist focus areas
Mental Health for Children and Families
- CUES
CUES is an innovative prevention and early intervention programme based on evidence-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). It was designed by our Clinical Psychologists and CBT Therapists to teach the importance of looking after mental health from a young age. This digital mental health wellbeing programme has been successfully delivered to numerous primary school students across the UK.
The key learning objectives are for children to understand how to care for themselves and their mental health, and to develop life-long skills to manage difficulties.
- Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities (EPEC)
EPEC is a successful, popular, evidence-based parenting programme that empowers mothers, fathers, parents, and carers to better understand, manage, and enrich their children’s needs and development, while also helping them to look after themselves.
The EPEC portfolio also offers a range of specialist parenting groups:
• Being a Parent of a Child with ASD/Autism
• Being a Parent of a Child with ADHD
• Being a Parent Together – for co-parents and carers who want to become a more effective parenting team, are at risk of parental conflict, and are living together or separately.
This programme has been delivered internationally and has attracted interest from countries such as Australia, Japan, Chile, and China.
- Family Partnership
The Family Partnership Model is a structured yet flexible approach to improving families’ problems, strengths, and circumstances. It enables practitioners and families to develop a shared understanding of needs and priorities, combining their knowledge, skills, and experience to achieve realistic and meaningful child and family goals.
The Model’s unique practice skills and resources enable parents to be active and effective partners in the helping process. It is a proven, highly successful way to build family resilience, cope with adversity, and achieve the best outcomes for children.
- Helping Families Team in Practice
The Helping Families Team is a future-oriented and strengths-focused programme that builds a meaningful and purposeful partnership with parents from the start. The programme works with families over time and actively engages with the network of professionals involved.
This approach supports parents experiencing a range of mental health challenges and illnesses, including:
• Depression and anxiety
• Interpersonal and emotional regulation difficulties
• Psychosis and complex trauma
- Suicide Prevention
Developed and delivered in collaboration with PROTECT, Maudsley offers a research-driven, relational approach to suicide prevention. We provide a range of suicide prevention training programmes tailored for schools, universities, primary care, hospitals, and healthcare professionals.
Mental health for older adults
Brain health clinic
South London and Maudsley’s Brain Health Clinic is a virtual service utilising state-of-the-art diagnostics. It offers patients assessment and diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment through remote consultation and testing technologies. This clinic has demonstrated that remote diagnostics can provide effective care to a larger and more diverse population.
The Brain Health Clinic investigates three main areas using cutting-edge technology to address major challenges in brain health and dementia diagnosis, care, and treatment. Techniques include brain scanning, blood sampling, computerised testing, and advanced technology to enable earlier and more accurate dementia diagnosis.
Training programmes on mental health for older adults
Maudsley Learning designs and delivers training programmes to meet the continuing professional development needs of healthcare professionals, as well as colleagues in social services, policing, education, and the private sector.
Our courses cover various mental health specialties, including mental health for older adults. See some of our training on older adult topics here.
We welcome overseas clinicians seeking to visit the Maudsley. Available programmes include:
📩 Contact us to discuss tailored international programmes:
Jose Mascarenhas – jose.mascarenhas@slam.nhs.uk
Loise Schlauder-Gueguen – loise.schlauder-gueguen@slam.nhs.uk
